On December 22nd, I watched along with the rest of the country as Dr. Anthony Fauci received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC. Years ago, I was an intern at the NIH, and as an Italian American in medicine, I have greatly admired Dr. Fauci’s intelligence, level-headedness and […]
A large team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. has conducted a review study of the role that social interaction plays in both morbidity and mortality rates. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their review and what they learned from it. One of the major consequences of […]
Both simple and advanced computed tomography (CT) were effective in accurately predicting which stroke patients would benefit from endovascular thrombectomy to remove a large cerebral clot, but together they were even better, reported researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Results of the multicenter study, Optimizing Patient Selection for Endovascular […]
